Other translators hand you words and wish you luck. Tono tells you how yours will land — so you don't come across as rude to your boss, cold to a friend, or distant to someone you love.
Free to try · Korean, Japanese, Chinese & 10 more
Get a word wrong and someone corrects you. Get the tone wrong and nobody says anything — they just quietly decide you're rude, or cold, or not worth the effort. Every other translator hands you a sentence carrying a charge you can't feel.
The first impression you only get one of — and the one where sounding too casual reads as disrespect, not warmth.
Colleagues won't tell you your Korean sounds blunt. They'll just stop asking what you think.
You wrote it in your second language and you're not sure it's right — or right for them. Paste it, say who it's for, and Tono corrects the spelling, the grammar and the register, with a line on each change in your own language. It's in the app, and in the share sheet wherever you're typing.
Select what you wrote in Messages, share it to Tono, copy it back fixed.
Paste the message you can't read. Tono decodes slang, shorthand and typos — and tells you what their tone reveals about where you stand with them.
Friendly, formal, or flirting? The words translate easily. The signal underneath doesn't — until now.
Full screen, full brightness, and a courtesy note in their language so a stranger understands what they're looking at — and wants to help. When they answer, it listens and shows you what they said, with replies ready to tap.
Short drills built from your own phrases, not a word list. A few minutes, and they work offline. And once a week, Tono reads what you said and writes a short lesson on the register you're actually building — kept on your phone, never on our servers.
Every explanation arrives in your own language — and so does the app itself. Korean is where Tono goes deepest, but the whole thing works between any two.
Or paste a message, snap a photo, or just speak it. Any of your languages, either direction.
“To my boss.” “At a market.” One line of context is all it takes to change the whole answer.
The translation, its register named and explained, and other ways to say it for other people.
Free to try on iPhone. Say what you mean — and know how it will land, before you say it.
